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Flying over NAS Cecil Field

Did you ever get up to Evergreen, Alabama, while stationed at Cecil? Many years ago while living in Greenville, Alabama, my son and I used to fly my Luscombe down to Evergreen. On several of our trips, the Navy was conducting training ops there with the T-34 C model. There was a T-28 B model on permanent static display at the airport.

RD
 
rdaniell said:
Did you ever get up to Evergreen, Alabama, while stationed at Cecil? Many years ago while living in Greenville, Alabama, my son and I used to fly my Luscombe down to Evergreen. On several of our trips, the Navy was conducting training ops there with the T-34 C model. There was a T-28 B model on permanent static display at the airport.

RD
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Have never been to Evergreen. I do have a friend who owns a restored USN Stearman, and lives at Roy E. Ray air park, located near Bayou Le Batre, AL. NC
 
Evergreen is an Outlying Field (OLF) used by the Primary squadrons at NAS Whiting Field. I bounced there many times in the T-6 while at NASWF. The other T-6 OLF is Brewton Muni
 
Wingnut172N said:
Evergreen is an Outlying Field (OLF) used by the Primary squadrons at NAS Whiting Field. I bounced there many times in the T-6 while at NASWF. The other T-6 OLF is Brewton Muni
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So you got into a hobby of Lower Alabama...."turkey calling." At least that what we used to call those touch and touch and touch and touch and then go landings. As a matter of fact, I did a little turkey calling the last time I flew my friend's Cessna 140. In my defense, it had been a few months between flights. (Well that's my story and I'm sticking with it.)

Wingnut, if I remember correctly the runway used by the Navy was the north/south runway. I always landed on the east/west runway. I also always noticed that as soon as I got into the traffic pattern that all the Navy aircraft immediately climbed back to pattern altitude and estasblished themselves in a holding pattern to the west of the field until I had cleared the runway.

RD
 
Fall In!

Navy Chief said:
Flying over NAS Cecil Field, FL. This is the way NAS Cecil used to look.....

Navy Chief

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Nice shot Chief. I can remember standing in parade formation too often by that long hangar on the west side! I'm going to Google Map to see how NAS Cecil looks today.

P.S. Are those EP-3s I see on the ramp?
 
rvn817j said:
Nice shot Chief. I can remember standing in parade formation too often by that long hangar on the west side! I'm going to Google Map to see how NAS Cecil looks today.

P.S. Are those EP-3s I see on the ramp?
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Not EP-3s. I placed some static Corsair IIs on the ramp! NC
 
Navy Chief said:
Not EP-3s. I placed some static Corsair IIs on the ramp! NC
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Sorry, I was referring to the Google map picture. It looks like the "current day" Cecil Field has EP-3s and some other types of civilian aircraft. I also looked at NAS Jax and it appears to have the "new" P-6 and, my personal favorite, one loan S-3A/B (parked with folded wings).

Has anyone done a complete Jacksonville scenery for FSX - so may airports and other interesting places!
 
rvn817j said:
Sorry, I was referring to the Google map picture. It looks like the "current day" Cecil Field has EP-3s and some other types of civilian aircraft. I also looked at NAS Jax and it appears to have the "new" P-6 and, my personal favorite, one loan S-3A/B (parked with folded wings).

Has anyone done a complete Jacksonville scenery for FSX - so may airports and other interesting places!
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I believe Megascenery has done all of Florida, but their product is just the land...,not individual airports. Some years back, Jim Dhaenens created NAS JAX for FSX. Nice! Flightsim.com has the most files you'll probably be interested in..... NC
 
In 1981, during workups on the America CV-66, our sister squadron had a ramp strike and some of our birds were doused with salt water during the ensuing fire on the flight deck. We took 4 aircraft to Cecil for reclamation, which turned out to be pilots finishing their required CQ's aboard the Lex...had some fun there!
 
rdaniell said:
So you got into a hobby of Lower Alabama...."turkey calling." At least that what we used to call those touch and touch and touch and touch and then go landings. As a matter of fact, I did a little turkey calling the last time I flew my friend's Cessna 140. In my defense, it had been a few months between flights. (Well that's my story and I'm sticking with it.)

Wingnut, if I remember correctly the runway used by the Navy was the north/south runway. I always landed on the east/west runway. I also always noticed that as soon as I got into the traffic pattern that all the Navy aircraft immediately climbed back to pattern altitude and estasblished themselves in a holding pattern to the west of the field until I had cleared the runway.

RD
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When I was there we used both runways, although the East/West runway was considered pretty short for the Texan. I full stopped on 10 once though without too much trouble. Standard procedure is to "Delta" and orbit until civilian traffic lands. Easiest way to deconflict 6 trainers with a civil.
 
I need to email John Stinstrom for permission this evening. Already emailed the SOH member who modified it. Will let you know. NC
 
Jim Dhaenens Cecil Field

The FS9 Non Photo version works (sorta of) in FSX
Pic enclosed

View attachment 86377in the readme there are these kodo's:

<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> Thanks to:
Pete Ward for suggesting this project and for his personal knowlege and invaluable experiences which greatly enhanced the detail and authenticity of this scenery

Jim Dhaenens for his road-testing, feedback, and good humor

Arno Gerretson for his Tree Library and unflagging support of the FS community

The FreeFlight Design Group for a great site of quality freeware by talented authors
They can be reached at http://www.freeflightdesign.com

Abacus for EZ Scenery Creator and FSDSv3 (it’s better than nothing)

Microsoft for FS2004

The author goes on to say:

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<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> My Cecil scenery is available in two versions, with and without photo-realistic ground cover. During the work on Cecil I became less and less enchanted with the ground cover photos I was using. The photos depicted the base in mid-2002 when a large portion of the buildings had already been torn down. Therefore I decided to release a parallel version using an AFCAD to cover the roads and some parking areas and removed the photo-real elements completely. Those wishing to have the photo-real elements that cover the base area can get them at http://www.avsim.com or http://www.flightsim.com under the file name KVQQ_P.zip.

I realize that there was/is a fsx version of this; that will be nice if the FSX version can be make avail. Until then I can sorta make do with the FS9 version as the stock FSX version is a little bland.








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